Badgers aaah!!!

[Rosefairy]

Anyone got any bright ideas to stop badgers digging up my front garden. I got out this morning it looks like its been ploughed up !!!
I live in a town and have already tried mothballs and cresote on rags but the devil keeps coming back.

They are an absolute nightmare. They wrecked our back garden. Male urine is supposed to work if anyone brave enough. Although my dh insists that it doesnt work.

Apparantly there are sonic things you can buy that deter them. My friend has just bought one. Keep bumping this thread and will let you know next time i see her whether it worked and if so where she got it

dont know anything about hooligan badgers, sorry but if it helps we have a stuffed one at the school where I work. You could picture it and imgine yours the same (I think they are proctected though0

yes they are protected. it is an offense to take a badger from its set, to hurt it etc etc you cant touch them

why wpould you want to touch a bagder.

touching badgers is bad, they are sooooo vicious, my mum used to work in a wildlife hospital and they had a hand reared one, she was in changing his food bowl and nearly had her ankle taken off!!!!

thankfully she just needed some anti biotics and some stitches (oh yeah and a tetnus!!)

i think there is something you can get which is a derivative of lions poo which helps, not got much more info sorry!!!

oh yes tht was another one go to the zoo and ask for their lion poo

lol not quite what i meant, thatd be kinda gross!!!!!

They're after bugs in your lawn - can't remember what bugs in particular. In theory, if you kill the bugs, the badgers get bored and b*gger off to dig elsewhere.

My parents spent £000s having the badger set in their garden fenced in to a depth of several feet to stop them digging any further. Then they had one way gates put on to stop the badgers using the set at all.

that is totally illegal soupy

Thanks Kath4kids, wonder If dh will do the honours hehehe!! perhaps after a few bevvies I will broach the subject. But the sonic thing sounds interesting as does the lion doo, I know its good for keeping cats away.

I've got a huge sett in my (small) wood, the badgers come out every night and snuffle around. Along with the grey squirrels that live here and a couple of visiting foxes, some digging does go on in the garden. But I like my wildlife

Yes so do I don't get me wrong, but you really should see the distruction they have caused, they weren't just snuffling they must have used a digger honestly my front lawn is a total mess its heartbreaking to see, great holes and mounds of earth everywhere. I don't want to harm them in any way but I just would like them to plough up someone elses garden, the gardens either side of me haven't been touched, which I can't understand.

No, Enid, it is not illegal at all actually.

They got a license and all the work was carried out by the local "badger people"

really?

they told us it was illegal to go within 50feet of a sett (a bit difficult as it is at the bottom of our garden)

Nope. All completely legal and above board. They had to have the legal people (whoever they were! Can't remember) come round and survey it, they agreed to the work and it was all specified on the license - it had to be done as the garden was beginning to subside and they were digging towards the house! All the work was done when there would be no baby badgers in the sett.

Who are the badger people where do I find them? DEFRA?

Apparantly they like lawns that are in good condition, if yours has less weeds than your worms are more nutricous hence why they dig up yours and not your neighbours

Rose fairy where do you live?

try

www.badgers.org.uk

Think it was DEFRA who issued the license.

Are you sure its not moles rosefairy?

absolutely sure, sat up at night and watched where its coming in

we tried to block off where they were coming in but they just dug underneath it

yes

Ooooohhhh.